Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Reece, Evan Wilfred

Archive Collections / Reece, Evan Wilfred
From : 14 November, 1941

Mr Evan Reece is the son of the Reverend Laurie Reece (See AA 591). Laurie and his wife Daisy, were Baptist missionaries at Warrabri (now Ali Curung) between 1947 and 1972. In May 1944 the South Australia Baptist Home Mission Department sent Reverend Reece to survey an area, suggested by the Lutheran church, North West of the Aranda area in which the Lutherans had ministered for many years. Reverend Reece was loaned camels and guides by Pastor Albrecht (See AA 662) and travelled North to Coniston and then West to Mount Singleton and Pikilyi, and then returned to Hermannsburg. He had travelled some six hundred miles, met many people in the Southern area of the Warlpiri tribe.

A collection of transparancies donated in 2012 by his father Reece senior is located in our archives AA 591.

Evan Reece has published a narrative of the exploratory expedition and subsequent establishment of the mission. Titled "We sat where they sat" and illustrated with photographs of the people and places visited. These photographs coincide with the negagtives described in SAMA 1155/2 and are supplemented with various documents extracts from which are provided to provide context to the establishment of the mission station.

See also: 'Dictionary of the Wailbri (Walpiri) language of Central Australia"; "Grammar of the Wailbri Language of Central Australia. Issue 13 of Oceania linguistic monographs"; "A trial in co-operation: Warrabri Co-operative Society Limited"; "Yuendumu: Legacy of a Longitudinal Growth Study in Central Australia"; "White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia"

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Inventory Listings by Series
Series SAMA 1155/1 - Photographs created and collected by Rev. Laurie Reece in Central Australia
Series SAMA 1155/2 - Photographic negatives documenting Reece's travels and life in Central Australia
Series SAMA 1155/3 - Journal of Rev. Laurie Reece
Series SAMA 1155/4 - Newspaper Clipping Centralian Advocate
Series SAMA 1155/5 - Manuscript notes
Series SAMA 1155/6 - 'We Sat Where They Sat'
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